brain (control center of the central nervous system)
çekim: çoğul أَدْمِغَة · tamlayan دِمَاغٍ
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Afroasiatic *dam- Proto-Semitic *dam- Arabic دَم (dam) Proto-Semitic *muḫḫ- Arabic مُخّ (muḵḵ) blend Arabic دِمَاغ Blend of دَم (dam, “blood”) + مُخّ (muḵḵ, “brain”), compare Arabic دَمْع (damʕ, “tears”) of the same relation with عَيْن (ʕayn, “eye”). While دَمْع (damʕ, “tears”) traces its formation back to Proto-Semitic, the present term is only paralleled by Ethiopian…
köken: Inherited from Middle Persian yʾmk' (jāmag), from Proto-Iranian *yām- (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yámas, *yam- (“to hold”), from Proto-Indo-European *yém-o-s, from *yem- (“to hold”), Northern Luri جۆمںە (cømə), see also Sanskrit यम् (yam, “to sustain”). Compare Old Armenian վարշամակ (varšamak).
boss, chief, superior · employer, manager · strong or tough guy
çekim: çoğul bazen
eş: bestuurder, overste, leider, chef
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- Proto-Germanic *bō-? Proto-Germanic *baswô Proto-West Germanic *baswō Old Dutch *baso Middle Dutch baes Dutch baas Inherited from Middle Dutch baes (“master of a household, friend”), from Old Dutch *baso (“uncle, kinsman”), from Proto-West Germanic *baswō, from Proto-Germanic *baswô. Cognates include Middle Low German bās (“supervisor, foreman”), Old…
aile: baas boven baas, baasachtig, baasje, bazig, bovenbaas, breinbaas, de baas spelen, eindbaas, huisbaas, de baas zijn
De baas gaf instructies aan het personeel om de deadlines te halen.
Hij is de baas van het bedrijf en neemt de belangrijke beslissingen.
De projectleider is de baas van het projectteam en stuurt de werkzaamheden aan.
a boss, especially of a criminal organization · a leader of a group of animals · boss (challenging enemy in a video game)
köken: Borrowed from English boss. First attested in Japanese in 1910 in 欧米印象記 (Ōbei Inshō-ki, “Record of Impressions of Europe and the US”) by 中村春雨 (Nakamura Shun'u), following his time spent in the US and Germany as an exchange student.
köken: Shortening of the former elölülnök (“president, chairman”, literally “one who sits in front”), from elöl (“in front”) + ül (“to sit”) + -nök (noun-forming suffix indicating an occupation), calque of German Vorsitzender (“chairman”). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. First attested in 1831.
guide (person who leads or shows the way) · leader, alpha (of a herd, flock, or pack of animals) · leader, head, chief (of a nation, political party, uprising, strike, or group)